About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began ...

In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, jewelry, ...

Remains of a right hand belonging to the Neanderthal individual from Abauntz, shown from different angles. Credit: Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Six hand bones from Abauntz Cave in northern Spain are ...

A small village church just outside Lugo, in northwest Spain, has been described for decades as a plain medieval building. A new study argues that it is about 300 years older than that, and that it ...

Migdol Temple at Pella in Jordan from the Middle Bronze Age, destroyed in the Iron Age. Credit: Ben Churcher. Pella Project, University of Sydney / Wikimedia Commons Seven pottery cups from a communal ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...

Roman Spain had a network of official roadside stops for officials, soldiers and couriers, yet archaeologists know very few ...

On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is ...

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone ...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils ...